Essential Horror Filmmakers & Actors
The directors, writers, and actors behind every kind of horror, grouped by genre. Each list opens with the figures who defined it — expand any to see the full roster, each with a complete horror filmography.
Monsters
Essential Filmmakers
121
James Whale
Director · 4 films
Tod Browning
Director · 12 films
Ishirō Honda
Director · 29 films
Terence Fisher
Director · 34 films
John Carpenter
Director · 73 films
George A. Romero
Director · 60 films
Guillermo del Toro
Director · 37 films
Jordan Peele
Actor · 17 films
Joe Dante
Director · 44 films
Stuart Gordon
Director · 38 films
Jack Arnold
Director · 8 films
James Cameron
Director · 18 films
Neil Marshall
Director · 18 films
Neil Jordan
Director · 8 films
Jacques Tourneur
Director · 6 films
Stephen Sommers
Writer · 6 films
Charles Band
Producer · 237 films
Roger Corman
Filmmaker · 183 films
Paul Naschy
Actor · 63 films
Sam Raimi
Director · 54 films
James Wan
Director · 46 films
Marcus Koch
Filmmaker · 42 films
Stan Winston
Filmmaker · 40 films
John Landis
Director · 37 films
Adrián García Bogliano
Director · 36 films
Lucio Fulci
Director · 34 films
Steven Spielberg
Director · 33 films
Larry Cohen
Director · 31 films
Tom Holland
Director · 31 films
John Gilling
Writer · 24 films
Johannes Roberts
Director · 23 films
Michele Soavi
Director · 23 films
Alexandre Aja
Director · 22 films
Aaron Moorhead
Director · 21 films
David Schmoeller
Director · 20 films
Jaume Balagueró
Director · 20 films
Justin Benson
Director · 20 films
Rob Zombie
Director · 18 films
Don Mancini
Writer · 17 films
Paco Plaza
Director · 17 films
Richard Stanley
Director · 17 films
Ridley Scott
Director · 17 films
Álex de la Iglesia
Director · 15 films
Frank Marshall
Producer · 15 films
Shinji Higuchi
Director · 15 films
Don Coscarelli
Director · 14 films
Frank Henenlotter
Director · 14 films
Reginald Le Borg
Director · 14 films
Renny Harlin
Director · 14 films
Shusuke Kaneko
Director · 14 films
Peter Jackson
Director · 13 films
Vincenzo Natali
Director · 13 films
F. W. Murnau
Director · 12 films
George Waggner
Director · 12 films
Karl Freund
Cinematographer · 12 films
Stephen Chiodo
Visual Effects · 12 films
Damien Leone
Director · 11 films
Edgar Wright
Director · 11 films
Eugène Lourié
Production Designer · 11 films
Noriaki Yuasa
Director · 11 films
Robert Eggers
Director · 11 films
Roy Ward Baker
Director · 11 films
Danny Boyle
Director · 10 films
Joel Schumacher
Director · 10 films
Park Chan-wook
Director · 10 films
Rafael Portillo
Director · 10 films
Alex Garland
Writer · 9 films
Conor McMahon
Director · 9 films
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director · 9 films
Russell Mulcahy
Director · 9 films
Victor Salva
Director · 9 films
André Øvredal
Director · 8 films
Brian Duffield
Writer · 8 films
Chuck Russell
Director · 8 films
Matt Reeves
Director · 8 films
Merian C. Cooper
Producer · 8 films
Neill Blomkamp
Director · 8 films
Paul Schrader
Writer · 8 films
Werner Herzog
Director · 8 films
William Brent Bell
Director · 8 films
Andrew Traucki
Director · 7 films
Fede Álvarez
Director · 7 films
Andy Muschietti
Director · 6 films
Bong Joon Ho
Director · 6 films
Bruce McDonald
Director · 6 films
Leigh Janiak
Director · 6 films
Takashi Yamazaki
Director · 6 films
Tony Scott
Director · 6 films
Yeon Sang-ho
Director · 6 films
Dan Trachtenberg
Director · 5 films
Don Siegel
Director · 5 films
E. Elias Merhige
Director · 5 films
John Guillermin
Director · 5 films
Richard Attenborough
Actor · 5 films
Ron Underwood
Director · 5 films
Ana Lily Amirpour
Director · 4 films
Christy Cabanne
Director · 4 films
Drew Goddard
Writer · 4 films
John Fawcett
Director · 4 films
Victor Halperin
Director · 4 films
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Director · 3 films
Jon Watts
Director · 3 films
Jonathan Glazer
Director · 3 films
Kathryn Bigelow
Director · 3 films
Philip Kaufman
Writer · 3 films
Robin Aubert
Actor · 3 films
William Eubank
Director · 3 films
Daniel Espinosa
Director · 2 films
Gareth Edwards
Director · 2 films
Gerard Johnstone
Director · 2 films
Howard Hawks
Director · 2 films
Jeff Barnaby
Director · 2 films
Jim Jarmusch
Director · 2 films
Joe Johnston
Filmmaker · 2 films
Marc Forster
Filmmaker · 2 films
Mike Newell
Director · 2 films
Stuart Walker
Director · 2 films
Tomas Alfredson
Director · 2 films
Jon Turteltaub
Filmmaker · 1 film
Michael Wadleigh
Director · 1 film
Mike Nichols
Filmmaker · 1 film
Essential Actors
113
Boris Karloff
Actor · 89 films
Bela Lugosi
Actor · 80 films
Lon Chaney Jr.
Actor · 57 films
Peter Cushing
Actor · 65 films
Christopher Lee
Actor · 101 films
Doug Jones
Actor · 49 films
Sigourney Weaver
Actor · 17 films
Bruce Campbell
Actor · 41 films
Lance Henriksen
Actor · 86 films
Jeffrey Combs
Actor · 62 films
Anthony Hopkins
Actor · 12 films
Kate Beckinsale
Actor · 10 films
Bill Skarsgård
Actor · 8 films
Linnea Quigley
Actor · 145 films
Tom Savini
Makeup & FX · 106 films
Tony Todd
Actor · 87 films
Dee Wallace
Actor · 73 films
Paul Naschy
Actor · 63 films
Barbara Crampton
Actor · 60 films
Brad Dourif
Actor · 54 films
Sid Haig
Actor · 46 films
Ray Wise
Actor · 39 films
Jeff Fahey
Actor · 33 films
Keith David
Actor · 31 films
Ken Foree
Actor · 30 films
Klaus Kinski
Actor · 29 films
Michael Biehn
Actor · 28 films
John Hurt
Actor · 27 films
Kenji Sahara
Actor · 26 films
Katharine Isabelle
Actor · 25 films
Oliver Reed
Actor · 25 films
Akihiko Hirata
Actor · 22 films
Donald Sutherland
Actor · 22 films
David Naughton
Actor · 21 films
Kevin McCarthy
Actor · 21 films
Bill Paxton
Actor · 20 films
Veronica Cartwright
Actor · 19 films
Guy Rolfe
Actor · 16 films
Kiefer Sutherland
Actor · 16 films
Simon Pegg
Actor · 16 films
Jeff Goldblum
Actor · 15 films
Akira Takarada
Actor · 14 films
Fiona Dourif
Actor · 14 films
Jennifer Tilly
Actor · 14 films
Tom Skerritt
Actor · 14 films
Brad Pitt
Actor · 13 films
Kevin Bacon
Actor · 13 films
Kurt Russell
Actor · 13 films
Max Schreck
Actor · 13 films
Mckenna Grace
Actor · 13 films
Roy Scheider
Actor · 13 films
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Actor · 13 films
Tim Curry
Actor · 13 films
David Howard Thornton
Actor · 12 films
Gary Oldman
Actor · 12 films
Ian Holm
Actor · 12 films
Milla Jovovich
Actor · 12 films
Hiroshi Koizumi
Actor · 11 films
Jack Nicholson
Actor · 11 films
Richard Carlson
Actor · 11 films
Takashi Shimura
Actor · 11 films
Alex Vincent
Actor · 10 films
Arnold Vosloo
Actor · 10 films
Duane Jones
Actor · 10 films
Fay Wray
Actor · 10 films
Ian Ziering
Actor · 10 films
Raymond Burr
Actor · 10 films
Tilda Swinton
Actor · 10 films
David Bowie
Actor · 9 films
Kumi Mizuno
Actor · 9 films
Lori Cardille
Actor · 9 films
Michael Gross
Actor · 9 films
Cillian Murphy
Actor · 8 films
Song Kang-ho
Actor · 8 films
Akira Kubo
Actor · 7 films
Annabelle Wallis
Actor · 7 films
Brendan Fraser
Actor · 7 films
Emily Perkins
Actor · 7 films
Angela Lansbury
Actor · 6 films
Julie Adams
Actor · 6 films
Michelle Pfeiffer
Actor · 6 films
Nastassja Kinski
Actor · 6 films
Rachel Weisz
Actor · 6 films
Richard Dreyfuss
Actor · 6 films
Sheila Vand
Actor · 6 films
Catherine Deneuve
Actor · 5 films
David Emge
Actor · 5 films
Don Lee
Actor · 5 films
Henry Hull
Actor · 5 films
Lily-Rose Depp
Actor · 5 films
Lorraine Gary
Actor · 5 films
Minami Hamabe
Actor · 5 films
Robert Shaw
Actor · 5 films
Sally Hawkins
Actor · 5 films
Daniel Kaluuya
Actor · 4 films
Jason Statham
Actor · 4 films
Kaya Scodelario
Actor · 4 films
Scarlett Johansson
Actor · 4 films
Zita Johann
Actor · 4 films
Allison Williams
Actor · 3 films
Benicio del Toro
Actor · 3 films
Cailee Spaeny
Actor · 3 films
Tom Hiddleston
Actor · 3 films
Bae Doona
Actor · 2 films
Blake Lively
Actor · 2 films
Ko A-sung
Actor · 2 films
Sarah Patterson
Actor · 2 films
Simone Simon
Actor · 2 films
Valerie Leon
Actor · 2 films
Gong Yoo
Actor · 1 film
Kåre Hedebrant
Actor · 1 film
Lauren Cohan
Actor · 1 film
Lina Leandersson
Actor · 1 film
Supernatural & Occult
Essential Filmmakers
122
William Friedkin
Director · 11 films
James Wan
Director · 46 films
Roman Polanski
Director · 13 films
Dario Argento
Director · 47 films
Mario Bava
Director · 25 films
Sam Raimi
Director · 54 films
Hideo Nakata
Director · 26 films
Tobe Hooper
Director · 40 films
John Carpenter
Director · 73 films
Rob Zombie
Director · 18 films
Scott Derrickson
Director · 15 films
Robert Wise
Director · 9 films
Ti West
Director · 20 films
Mike Flanagan
Director · 18 films
Robert Eggers
Director · 11 films
Ari Aster
Director · 10 films
Wes Craven
Director · 77 films
Takashi Shimizu
Director · 62 films
Guillermo del Toro
Director · 37 films
Terence Fisher
Director · 34 films
Tim Burton
Director · 25 films
William Castle
Director · 19 films
Paco Plaza
Director · 17 films
Osgood Perkins
Director · 16 films
Don Coscarelli
Director · 14 films
F. W. Murnau
Director · 12 films
Ken Russell
Director · 10 films
Richard Donner
Director · 9 films
Jacques Tourneur
Director · 6 films
Michael Chaves
Director · 6 films
Stanley Kubrick
Director · 6 films
David Prior
Director · 5 films
Danny Philippou
Director · 3 films
Panos Cosmatos
Director · 3 films
Alan Parker
Director · 2 films
Arkasha Stevenson
Director · 2 films
Julius Avery
Director · 2 films
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Director · 1 film
Stuart Rosenberg
Filmmaker · 1 film
Koji Shiraishi
Director · 85 films
Clive Barker
Writer · 48 films
David Cronenberg
Director · 43 films
Stuart Gordon
Director · 38 films
Lamberto Bava
Director · 37 films
Lucio Fulci
Director · 34 films
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director · 30 films
Steven Kostanski
Director · 23 films
Aaron Moorhead
Director · 21 films
Bill Paxton
Actor · 20 films
Justin Benson
Director · 20 films
Mark L. Lester
Director · 20 films
Oren Peli
Producer · 20 films
M. Night Shyamalan
Director · 19 films
Robert Zemeckis
Director · 19 films
Brian De Palma
Director · 18 films
Nobuo Nakagawa
Director · 18 films
Richard Stanley
Director · 17 films
Vincenzo Natali
Director · 13 films
Colin Minihan
Writer · 12 films
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director · 12 films
Roy Ward Baker
Director · 11 films
Steve Miner
Director · 11 films
Edgar G. Ulmer
Director · 10 films
Alex Garland
Writer · 9 films
Kim Jee-woon
Director · 9 films
Mark Robson
Director · 9 films
Nicolas Roeg
Director · 9 films
André Øvredal
Director · 8 films
Benjamin Christensen
Director · 8 films
Brad Anderson
Director · 8 films
Bryan Woods
Writer · 8 films
Christophe Gans
Director · 8 films
George Miller
Director · 8 films
Scott Beck
Writer · 8 films
Andrzej Żuławski
Director · 7 films
Cameron Cairnes
Director · 7 films
Colin Cairnes
Director · 7 films
David F. Sandberg
Director · 7 films
Karyn Kusama
Director · 7 films
Kenneth Anger
Director · 7 films
Alejandro Amenábar
Writer · 6 films
Andy Muschietti
Director · 6 films
J. A. Bayona
Director · 6 films
Jeff Wadlow
Director · 6 films
Leigh Janiak
Director · 6 films
Michael Powell
Director · 6 films
Ole Bornedal
Director · 6 films
Peter Medak
Director · 6 films
Andy Mitton
Writer · 5 films
Daniel Stamm
Director · 5 films
David Yarovesky
Director · 5 films
Michael Reeves
Writer · 5 films
Herk Harvey
Director · 4 films
James Whale
Director · 4 films
Jennifer Kent
Director · 4 films
John Erick Dowdle
Director · 4 films
Keith Thomas
Director · 4 films
Michael Philippou
Director · 4 films
Paul Leni
Director · 4 films
Peter Sykes
Director · 4 films
Rose Glass
Director · 4 films
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Director · 3 films
Jack Clayton
Director · 3 films
Kyle Edward Ball
Director · 3 films
Luca Guadagnino
Director · 3 films
Mikael Håfström
Director · 3 films
Olivier Assayas
Director · 3 films
Sidney Hayers
Director · 3 films
Steve Beck
Director · 3 films
William Eubank
Director · 3 films
Anna Biller
Director · 2 films
Jeff Nichols
Director · 2 films
Kenji Mizoguchi
Director · 2 films
Lewis Allen
Director · 2 films
Masaki Kobayashi
Director · 2 films
Bernard McEveety
Filmmaker · 1 film
Goran Stolevski
Director · 1 film
Josh Trank
Director · 1 film
Liam Gavin
Director · 1 film
Marcin Wrona
Director · 1 film
Remi Weekes
Director · 1 film
Taylor Hackford
Director · 1 film
Essential Actors
86Christopher Lee
Actor · 101 films
Vincent Price
Actor · 68 films
Peter Cushing
Actor · 65 films
Patrick Wilson
Actor · 21 films
Lin Shaye
Actor · 66 films
Boris Karloff
Actor · 89 films
Vera Farmiga
Actor · 12 films
Max von Sydow
Actor · 20 films
Linda Blair
Actor · 28 films
Jeffrey Combs
Actor · 62 films
Nicolas Cage
Actor · 27 films
Robert Englund
Actor · 76 films
Paul Naschy
Actor · 63 films
Donald Pleasence
Actor · 51 films
Bruce Campbell
Actor · 41 films
Barbara Steele
Actor · 25 films
Christopher Walken
Actor · 16 films
Nicole Kidman
Actor · 15 films
Anya Taylor-Joy
Actor · 13 films
Ellen Burstyn
Actor · 9 films
Jason Miller
Actor · 8 films
Robert De Niro
Actor · 8 films
Toni Collette
Actor · 8 films
Al Pacino
Actor · 6 films
Deborah Kerr
Actor · 3 films
Sophie Wilde
Actor · 2 films
Tony Todd
Actor · 87 films
Lance Henriksen
Actor · 86 films
Barbara Crampton
Actor · 60 films
Doug Bradley
Actor · 52 films
David Dastmalchian
Actor · 24 films
Bonnie Aarons
Actor · 23 films
Julian Sands
Actor · 23 films
Willem Dafoe
Actor · 19 films
Chloë Grace Moretz
Actor · 17 films
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor · 16 films
Jocelin Donahue
Actor · 14 films
Michael Shannon
Actor · 14 films
Shelley Duvall
Actor · 14 films
Sheri Moon Zombie
Actor · 14 films
Drew Barrymore
Actor · 13 films
Keanu Reeves
Actor · 13 films
Kurt Russell
Actor · 13 films
Anthony Hopkins
Actor · 12 films
Ashley Laurence
Actor · 12 films
Barbara Hershey
Actor · 12 films
Maika Monroe
Actor · 12 films
Mia Goth
Actor · 12 films
Robert Pattinson
Actor · 12 films
Ethan Hawke
Actor · 11 films
Jack Nicholson
Actor · 11 films
Katie Featherston
Actor · 11 films
Kristen Stewart
Actor · 11 films
Mickey Rourke
Actor · 11 films
Takako Fuji
Actor · 11 films
Catriona MacColl
Actor · 10 films
Sam Neill
Actor · 10 films
Sissy Spacek
Actor · 10 films
Tilda Swinton
Actor · 10 films
Belén Rueda
Actor · 9 films
Ewan McGregor
Actor · 8 films
Haley Joel Osment
Actor · 8 films
JoBeth Williams
Actor · 8 films
Amy Irving
Actor · 7 films
John Cusack
Actor · 7 films
Mia Wasikowska
Actor · 7 films
Rebecca Hall
Actor · 7 films
Susan Sarandon
Actor · 7 films
Anjelica Huston
Actor · 6 films
Sophie Thatcher
Actor · 6 films
George C. Scott
Actor · 5 films
Mia Farrow
Actor · 5 films
Natalie Portman
Actor · 5 films
Essie Davis
Actor · 4 films
Florence Pugh
Actor · 4 films
Morfydd Clark
Actor · 4 films
Russell Crowe
Actor · 4 films
Sandra Escacena
Actor · 4 films
Wunmi Mosaku
Actor · 4 films
Cher
Actor · 3 films
Daniel Radcliffe
Actor · 3 films
Hugh Grant
Actor · 3 films
Mason Thames
Actor · 3 films
Chloe East
Actor · 2 films
Machiko Kyō
Actor · 2 films
Zac Efron
Actor · 2 films
Human Monsters
Essential Filmmakers
95
Alfred Hitchcock
Director · 18 films
Tobe Hooper
Director · 40 films
Wes Craven
Director · 77 films
John Carpenter
Director · 73 films
Dario Argento
Director · 47 films
Eli Roth
Director · 48 films
Alexandre Aja
Director · 22 films
Rob Zombie
Director · 18 films
David Fincher
Director · 13 films
Greg McLean
Director · 9 films
Jonathan Demme
Director · 7 films
Takashi Miike
Director · 32 films
Bryan Bertino
Director · 14 films
Lars von Trier
Director · 11 films
Meir Zarchi
Writer · 6 films
S. Craig Zahler
Director · 3 films
Christian Tafdrup
Actor · 2 films
Sam Raimi
Director · 54 films
James Wan
Director · 46 films
Adam Green
Director · 38 films
David Lynch
Director · 36 films
Kevin Greutert
Editor · 33 films
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director · 30 films
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Director · 29 films
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director · 26 films
Sean S. Cunningham
Producer · 26 films
Mario Bava
Director · 25 films
Marcus Dunstan
Writer · 23 films
Ruggero Deodato
Director · 23 films
Adam Wingard
Director · 22 films
Sergio Martino
Director · 20 films
Ti West
Director · 20 films
Umberto Lenzi
Director · 20 films
William Lustig
Director · 20 films
Steven R. Monroe
Director · 19 films
Brian De Palma
Director · 18 films
Mike Flanagan
Director · 18 films
Jordan Peele
Actor · 17 films
Julien Maury
Director · 17 films
Alexandre Bustillo
Director · 16 films
Lucky McKee
Director · 16 films
Sion Sono
Filmmaker · 16 films
Xavier Gens
Director · 16 films
Antonio Margheriti
Director · 14 films
Fritz Lang
Director · 14 films
Bob Balaban
Actor · 12 films
Damien Leone
Director · 11 films
Park Chan-wook
Director · 10 films
Pascal Laugier
Writer · 10 films
John McNaughton
Director · 9 films
Kim Jee-woon
Director · 9 films
Michael Haneke
Director · 9 films
Abel Ferrara
Director · 8 films
Gaspar Noé
Director · 8 films
James DeMonaco
Writer · 8 films
Jim Mickle
Director · 8 films
Bob Clark
Director · 7 films
Fede Álvarez
Director · 7 films
James Watkins
Director · 7 films
Bong Joon Ho
Director · 6 films
David Slade
Director · 6 films
Ingmar Bergman
Director · 6 films
Jorge Michel Grau
Director · 6 films
David Moreau
Director · 5 films
Julia Ducournau
Director · 5 films
Marc Caro
Director · 5 films
Coralie Fargeat
Director · 4 films
Drew Goddard
Writer · 4 films
Emerald Fennell
Director · 4 films
Jennifer Kent
Director · 4 films
Mary Harron
Director · 4 films
Na Hong-jin
Director · 4 films
Sam Peckinpah
Director · 4 films
Sean Byrne
Director · 4 films
Shunya Ito
Director · 4 films
Tom Six
Director · 4 films
Bo Arne Vibenius
Writer · 3 films
Claire Denis
Director · 3 films
Coralie Trinh Thi
Actor · 3 films
Craig Zobel
Director · 3 films
Denis Villeneuve
Director · 3 films
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Filmmaker · 3 films
John Boorman
Director · 3 films
Luca Guadagnino
Director · 3 films
Srđan Spasojević
Writer · 3 films
Toshiya Fujita
Director · 3 films
Michael Mann
Director · 2 films
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Actor · 2 films
Osgood Perkins
Filmmaker · 2 films
Antonia Bird
Filmmaker · 1 film
Ben Young
Writer · 1 film
Leonard Kastle
Filmmaker · 1 film
Mimi Cave
Filmmaker · 1 film
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director · 1 film
Virginie Despentes
Writer · 1 film
Essential Actors
102
Jamie Lee Curtis
Actor · 25 films
Robert Englund
Actor · 76 films
Tony Todd
Actor · 87 films
Kane Hodder
Actor · 101 films
Danielle Harris
Actor · 48 films
Tobin Bell
Actor · 34 films
Anthony Hopkins
Actor · 12 films
Bill Moseley
Actor · 99 films
Sid Haig
Actor · 46 films
John Jarratt
Actor · 19 films
Marilyn Burns
Actor · 15 films
Gunnar Hansen
Actor · 33 films
Michael Rooker
Actor · 22 films
Camille Keaton
Actor · 21 films
Brad Pitt
Actor · 13 films
Brad Dourif
Actor · 54 films
Doug Bradley
Actor · 52 films
Donald Pleasence
Actor · 51 films
Bruce Campbell
Actor · 41 films
Costas Mandylor
Actor · 31 films
Nicolas Cage
Actor · 27 films
Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Actor · 23 films
Kate Siegel
Actor · 22 films
Patrick Wilson
Actor · 21 films
Willem Dafoe
Actor · 19 films
Anthony Perkins
Actor · 18 films
Peter Lorre
Actor · 17 films
Pollyanna McIntosh
Actor · 17 films
Frank Grillo
Actor · 16 films
Shawnee Smith
Actor · 15 films
Ivan Rassimov
Actor · 14 films
Drew Barrymore
Actor · 13 films
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor · 13 films
Keanu Reeves
Actor · 13 films
Kurt Russell
Actor · 13 films
Olivia Hussey
Actor · 13 films
Brian Cox
Actor · 12 films
David Howard Thornton
Actor · 12 films
Eihi Shiina
Actor · 12 films
Maika Monroe
Actor · 12 films
Mia Goth
Actor · 12 films
Neve Campbell
Actor · 12 films
Betsy Russell
Actor · 11 films
Joe Spinell
Actor · 11 films
Michael Fassbender
Actor · 11 films
Stephen Lang
Actor · 11 films
Béatrice Dalle
Actor · 10 films
Guy Pearce
Actor · 10 films
Scott Speedman
Actor · 10 films
Susan George
Actor · 10 films
Courteney Cox
Actor · 9 films
Jay Hernandez
Actor · 9 films
Koji Yakusho
Actor · 9 films
Monica Bellucci
Actor · 9 films
Robert Kerman
Actor · 9 films
Vincent Cassel
Actor · 9 films
Christian Bale
Actor · 8 films
Jodie Foster
Actor · 8 films
Song Kang-ho
Actor · 8 films
Christina Lindberg
Actor · 7 films
Kelly Reilly
Actor · 7 films
Ann Dowd
Actor · 6 films
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Actor · 6 films
Jemma Dallender
Actor · 6 films
Jon Voight
Actor · 6 films
Macaulay Culkin
Actor · 6 films
Me Me Lai
Actor · 6 films
Meiko Kaji
Actor · 6 films
Ned Beatty
Actor · 6 films
Sebastian Stan
Actor · 6 films
Choi Min-sik
Actor · 5 films
Dustin Hoffman
Actor · 5 films
James McAvoy
Actor · 5 films
Robert Carlyle
Actor · 5 films
Sarah Butler
Actor · 5 films
Taylor Russell
Actor · 5 films
Tony Lo Bianco
Actor · 5 films
Aisling Franciosi
Actor · 4 films
Burt Reynolds
Actor · 4 films
Carey Mulligan
Actor · 4 films
Elliot Page
Actor · 4 films
Garance Marillier
Actor · 4 films
Matilda Lutz
Actor · 4 films
Sharni Vinson
Actor · 4 films
Dieter Laser
Actor · 3 films
Emma Booth
Actor · 3 films
Jess Weixler
Actor · 3 films
Liv Tyler
Actor · 3 films
Lupita Nyong'o
Actor · 3 films
Mylène Jampanoï
Actor · 3 films
Robin McLeavy
Actor · 3 films
Susanne Lothar
Actor · 3 films
Timothée Chalamet
Actor · 3 films
Ulrich Mühe
Actor · 3 films
Zoë Lund
Actor · 3 films
Gary Bond
Actor · 2 films
Lee Byung-hun
Actor · 2 films
Shirley Stoler
Actor · 2 films
Audrey Hepburn
Actor · 1 film
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Actor · 1 film
Lee Young-ae
Actor · 1 film
Morjana Alaoui
Actor · 1 film
Psychological
Essential Filmmakers
60Alfred Hitchcock
Director · 18 films
David Lynch
Director · 36 films
Roman Polanski
Director · 13 films
Stanley Kubrick
Director · 6 films
David Cronenberg
Director · 43 films
Ari Aster
Director · 10 films
M. Night Shyamalan
Director · 19 films
Darren Aronofsky
Director · 5 films
Jordan Peele
Actor · 17 films
David Fincher
Director · 13 films
Martin Scorsese
Director · 12 films
Kim Jee-woon
Director · 9 films
Nicolas Roeg
Director · 9 films
Robert Aldrich
Director · 5 films
John Carpenter
Director · 73 films
Guillermo del Toro
Director · 37 films
Leigh Whannell
Writer · 36 films
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director · 30 films
Val Guest
Director · 19 films
Brian De Palma
Director · 18 films
Mike Flanagan
Director · 18 films
Jane Schoenbrun
Director · 11 films
Roy Ward Baker
Director · 11 films
William Friedkin
Director · 11 films
Park Chan-wook
Director · 10 films
Pascal Laugier
Writer · 10 films
Alex Garland
Writer · 9 films
Brad Anderson
Director · 8 films
John Frankenheimer
Director · 8 films
Mary Lambert
Director · 8 films
Jonathan Demme
Director · 7 films
Andy Muschietti
Director · 6 films
Babak Anvari
Director · 6 films
Brandon Cronenberg
Director · 6 films
Ingmar Bergman
Director · 6 films
J. A. Bayona
Director · 6 films
Bryan Forbes
Director · 5 films
Don Siegel
Director · 5 films
Julia Ducournau
Director · 5 films
Robert Wiene
Director · 5 films
Severin Fiala
Director · 5 films
Veronika Franz
Director · 5 films
Charlie Kaufman
Writer · 4 films
Coralie Fargeat
Director · 4 films
Jennifer Kent
Director · 4 films
Parker Finn
Director · 4 films
Rose Glass
Director · 4 films
Satoshi Kon
Writer · 4 films
Danny Philippou
Director · 3 films
Denis Villeneuve
Director · 3 films
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer · 3 films
Philip Kaufman
Writer · 3 films
Adrian Lyne
Director · 2 films
Christian Tafdrup
Actor · 2 films
Jeff Nichols
Director · 2 films
Pedro Almodóvar
Director · 2 films
David Robert Mitchell
Director · 1 film
George Cukor
Filmmaker · 1 film
Remi Weekes
Director · 1 film
Rouben Mamoulian
Director · 1 film
Essential Actors
75Vincent Price
Actor · 68 films
Anya Taylor-Joy
Actor · 13 films
Toni Collette
Actor · 8 films
Elisabeth Moss
Actor · 9 films
Bette Davis
Actor · 10 films
Donald Sutherland
Actor · 22 films
Maika Monroe
Actor · 12 films
Malcolm McDowell
Actor · 43 films
Naomi Watts
Actor · 15 films
Jeremy Irons
Actor · 5 films
Mia Farrow
Actor · 5 films
Natalie Portman
Actor · 5 films
Rosamund Pike
Actor · 5 films
Michael Ironside
Actor · 49 films
Keith David
Actor · 31 films
Kevin McCarthy
Actor · 21 films
Kyle Gallner
Actor · 16 films
Jeff Goldblum
Actor · 15 films
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Actor · 15 films
Joseph Cotten
Actor · 15 films
Nicole Kidman
Actor · 15 films
Michael Shannon
Actor · 14 films
Shelley Duvall
Actor · 14 films
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor · 13 films
Kurt Russell
Actor · 13 films
Anthony Hopkins
Actor · 12 films
Bruce Willis
Actor · 12 films
Joan Crawford
Actor · 12 films
Jack Nicholson
Actor · 11 films
Piper Laurie
Actor · 11 films
Roddy Piper
Actor · 11 films
Demi Moore
Actor · 10 films
Sissy Spacek
Actor · 10 films
Belén Rueda
Actor · 9 films
Brooke Adams
Actor · 9 films
Ellen Burstyn
Actor · 9 films
Patricia Arquette
Actor · 9 films
Christian Bale
Actor · 8 films
James Woods
Actor · 8 films
Kim Novak
Actor · 8 films
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor · 8 films
Robert De Niro
Actor · 8 films
Jessica Chastain
Actor · 7 films
Riley Keough
Actor · 7 films
James Stewart
Actor · 6 films
Julie Christie
Actor · 6 films
Olivia de Havilland
Actor · 6 films
Sheryl Lee
Actor · 6 films
Andrea Riseborough
Actor · 5 films
Antonio Banderas
Actor · 5 films
Bridget Fonda
Actor · 5 films
Catherine Deneuve
Actor · 5 films
Choi Min-sik
Actor · 5 films
Jennifer Lawrence
Actor · 5 films
Jessie Buckley
Actor · 5 films
Kathy Bates
Actor · 5 films
Liv Ullmann
Actor · 5 films
Tim Robbins
Actor · 5 films
Bibi Andersson
Actor · 4 films
Daniel Kaluuya
Actor · 4 films
Elena Anaya
Actor · 4 films
Essie Davis
Actor · 4 films
Florence Pugh
Actor · 4 films
Ingrid Bergman
Actor · 4 films
Margaret Qualley
Actor · 4 films
Morfydd Clark
Actor · 4 films
Narges Rashidi
Actor · 4 films
Sosie Bacon
Actor · 4 films
Wunmi Mosaku
Actor · 4 films
Joan Fontaine
Actor · 3 films
Lupita Nyong'o
Actor · 3 films
Justice Smith
Actor · 2 films
Lim Soo-jung
Actor · 2 films
Rock Hudson
Actor · 2 films
Sophie Wilde
Actor · 2 films
Body & Contagion
Essential Filmmakers
63David Cronenberg
Director · 43 films
John Carpenter
Director · 73 films
Stuart Gordon
Director · 38 films
Julia Ducournau
Director · 5 films
Frank Henenlotter
Director · 14 films
Brian Yuzna
Producer · 45 films
Shinya Tsukamoto
Director · 24 films
Larry Cohen
Director · 31 films
George A. Romero
Director · 60 films
James Gunn
Writer · 14 films
Vincenzo Natali
Director · 13 films
Coralie Fargeat
Director · 4 films
Rob Jabbaz
Director · 2 films
Lloyd Kaufman
Director · 280 films
Roger Corman
Filmmaker · 183 films
Sam Raimi
Director · 54 films
Clive Barker
Writer · 48 films
Eli Roth
Director · 48 films
Joe Dante
Director · 44 films
Yoshihiro Nishimura
Director · 44 films
Adam Green
Director · 38 films
John Landis
Director · 37 films
David Lynch
Director · 36 films
Leigh Whannell
Writer · 36 films
Lucio Fulci
Director · 34 films
Noboru Iguchi
Director · 34 films
Terence Fisher
Director · 34 films
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Director · 29 films
Jaume Balagueró
Director · 20 films
Paco Plaza
Director · 17 films
Ridley Scott
Director · 17 films
Robert Rodriguez
Director · 16 films
Steven Soderbergh
Director · 16 films
Jack Sholder
Director · 13 films
Peter Jackson
Director · 13 films
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director · 12 films
Damien Leone
Director · 11 films
Danny Boyle
Director · 10 films
Alex Garland
Writer · 9 films
Robert Wise
Director · 9 films
Brandon Cronenberg
Director · 6 films
Bruce McDonald
Director · 6 films
Erle C. Kenton
Director · 6 films
Kurt Neumann
Director · 6 films
Takashi Yamazaki
Director · 6 films
Robert Wiene
Director · 5 films
Barry Levinson
Director · 4 films
Francis Lawrence
Director · 4 films
James Whale
Director · 4 films
John Erick Dowdle
Director · 4 films
Paul Morrissey
Director · 4 films
Tom Six
Director · 4 films
Breck Eisner
Director · 3 films
Georges Franju
Director · 3 films
Jonathan Glazer
Director · 3 films
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director · 3 films
Luca Guadagnino
Director · 3 films
Panos Cosmatos
Director · 3 films
Philip Kaufman
Writer · 3 films
Trey Edward Shults
Director · 3 films
Kenneth Branagh
Actor · 2 films
Marc Forster
Filmmaker · 2 films
Rouben Mamoulian
Director · 1 film
Essential Actors
69Jeff Goldblum
Actor · 15 films
Jeffrey Combs
Actor · 62 films
Barbara Crampton
Actor · 60 films
Brad Dourif
Actor · 54 films
Katharine Isabelle
Actor · 25 films
Geena Davis
Actor · 4 films
Boris Karloff
Actor · 89 films
Peter Cushing
Actor · 65 films
Demi Moore
Actor · 10 films
Linnea Quigley
Actor · 145 films
Christopher Lee
Actor · 101 films
Kane Hodder
Actor · 101 films
Bela Lugosi
Actor · 80 films
Dee Wallace
Actor · 73 films
Vincent Price
Actor · 68 films
Danielle Harris
Actor · 48 films
Bruce Campbell
Actor · 41 films
Tomorowo Taguchi
Actor · 41 films
Asami
Actor · 34 films
Stephen McHattie
Actor · 34 films
Caroline Williams
Actor · 32 films
Keith David
Actor · 31 films
Elijah Wood
Actor · 29 films
John Hurt
Actor · 27 films
Nicolas Cage
Actor · 27 films
Lionel Atwill
Actor · 25 films
Mary Woronov
Actor · 24 films
Shinya Tsukamoto
Director · 24 films
Donald Sutherland
Actor · 22 films
Michael Rooker
Actor · 22 films
David Naughton
Actor · 21 films
Sigourney Weaver
Actor · 17 films
Shota Sometani
Actor · 15 films
Brad Pitt
Actor · 13 films
Joel Edgerton
Actor · 13 films
Kurt Russell
Actor · 13 films
David Howard Thornton
Actor · 12 films
Milla Jovovich
Actor · 12 films
Viggo Mortensen
Actor · 11 films
Catriona MacColl
Actor · 10 films
Tilda Swinton
Actor · 10 films
Charles Laughton
Actor · 9 films
Elisabeth Moss
Actor · 9 films
Cillian Murphy
Actor · 8 films
Timothy Olyphant
Actor · 8 films
Colin Clive
Actor · 7 films
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Actor · 6 films
Édith Scob
Actor · 6 films
Matt Damon
Actor · 6 films
Andrea Riseborough
Actor · 5 films
Connie Nielsen
Actor · 5 films
Hermione Corfield
Actor · 5 films
Jeremy Irons
Actor · 5 films
Natalie Portman
Actor · 5 films
Robert Carlyle
Actor · 5 films
Garance Marillier
Actor · 4 films
Jennifer Carpenter
Actor · 4 films
Margaret Qualley
Actor · 4 films
Michelle Rodriguez
Actor · 4 films
Scarlett Johansson
Actor · 4 films
Will Smith
Actor · 4 films
Dieter Laser
Actor · 3 films
Gwyneth Paltrow
Actor · 3 films
Kate Winslet
Actor · 3 films
Naomie Harris
Actor · 3 films
Nathan Fillion
Actor · 3 films
Pierre Brasseur
Actor · 2 films
Agathe Rousselle
Actor · 1 film
Jodie Comer
Actor · 1 film
Nature
Essential Filmmakers
39Steven Spielberg
Director · 33 films
Alfred Hitchcock
Director · 18 films
Jack Arnold
Director · 8 films
Andrew Traucki
Director · 7 films
Alexandre Aja
Director · 22 films
Larry Fessenden
Actor · 85 films
Lars von Trier
Director · 11 films
Joe Carnahan
Writer · 3 films
Eli Roth
Director · 48 films
M. Night Shyamalan
Director · 19 films
Bert I. Gordon
Director · 18 films
Frank Marshall
Producer · 15 films
Ben Wheatley
Director · 14 films
Renny Harlin
Director · 14 films
John "Bud" Cardos
Director · 13 films
Steve Miner
Director · 11 films
Jan de Bont
Cinematographer · 10 films
Alex Garland
Writer · 9 films
Greg McLean
Director · 9 films
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director · 9 films
Roland Emmerich
Director · 9 films
Russell Mulcahy
Director · 9 films
Jeff Lieberman
Director · 8 films
John Frankenheimer
Director · 8 films
Saul Bass
Production Designer · 8 films
Stephen Hopkins
Director · 7 films
Colin Eggleston
Director · 6 films
J. A. Bayona
Director · 6 films
Jorge Grau
Director · 5 films
Lewis Teague
Director · 5 films
Barry Levinson
Director · 4 films
Ruben Östlund
Director · 4 films
Baltasar Kormákur
Director · 3 films
Chris Kentis
Director · 3 films
Luis Llosa
Director · 3 films
Ronald Neame
Director · 3 films
Alister Grierson
Director · 2 films
George McCowan
Director · 2 films
Roger Donaldson
Filmmaker · 2 films
Essential Actors
26Roy Scheider
Actor · 13 films
Tippi Hedren
Actor · 13 films
Lorraine Gary
Actor · 5 films
Robert Shaw
Actor · 5 films
Casper Van Dien
Actor · 24 films
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Actor · 6 films
Dee Wallace
Actor · 73 films
Ron Perlman
Actor · 32 films
Tom Holland
Director · 31 films
Willem Dafoe
Actor · 19 films
Naomi Watts
Actor · 15 films
Val Kilmer
Actor · 14 films
Kirsten Dunst
Actor · 9 films
Liam Neeson
Actor · 9 films
Pierce Brosnan
Actor · 9 films
Ewan McGregor
Actor · 8 films
Idris Elba
Actor · 7 films
Jon Voight
Actor · 6 films
Natalie Portman
Actor · 5 films
Gene Hackman
Actor · 4 films
Jeff Daniels
Actor · 4 films
Kaya Scodelario
Actor · 4 films
Rod Taylor
Actor · 4 films
Blake Lively
Actor · 2 films
John Hargreaves
Actor · 2 films
Mandy Moore
Actor · 1 film
Genre Hybrids
Essential Filmmakers
160Sam Raimi
Director · 54 films
Joe Dante
Director · 44 films
Tim Burton
Director · 25 films
John Carpenter
Director · 73 films
James Cameron
Director · 18 films
Edgar Wright
Director · 11 films
George Miller
Director · 8 films
Jordan Peele
Actor · 17 films
Danny Boyle
Director · 10 films
George A. Romero
Director · 60 films
Jean Rollin
Director · 22 films
M. Night Shyamalan
Director · 19 films
Neil Marshall
Director · 18 films
Ridley Scott
Director · 17 films
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director · 15 films
Peter Jackson
Director · 13 films
Roy Ward Baker
Director · 11 films
Alex Garland
Writer · 9 films
Brandon Cronenberg
Director · 6 films
Frank Oz
Actor · 6 films
Yeon Sang-ho
Director · 6 films
John Krasinski
Actor · 5 films
Jonathan Glazer
Director · 3 films
Mick Jackson
Director · 1 film
Jesús Franco
Filmmaker · 94 films
Wes Craven
Director · 77 films
Clive Barker
Writer · 48 films
Eli Roth
Director · 48 films
Dario Argento
Director · 47 films
James Wan
Director · 46 films
David Cronenberg
Director · 43 films
Tobe Hooper
Director · 40 films
Adam Green
Director · 38 films
Stuart Gordon
Director · 38 films
Guillermo del Toro
Director · 37 films
John Landis
Director · 37 films
Lamberto Bava
Director · 37 films
David Lynch
Director · 36 films
Joe D'Amato
Director · 34 films
Steven Spielberg
Director · 33 films
Takashi Miike
Director · 32 films
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director · 26 films
Mario Bava
Director · 25 films
Johannes Roberts
Director · 23 films
Alexandre Aja
Director · 22 films
Jaume Balagueró
Director · 20 films
Robert Zemeckis
Director · 19 films
William Castle
Director · 19 films
Alfred Hitchcock
Director · 18 films
Brian De Palma
Director · 18 films
Christopher Landon
Writer · 18 films
Paco Plaza
Director · 17 films
Robert Rodriguez
Director · 16 films
Xavier Gens
Director · 16 films
Álex de la Iglesia
Director · 15 films
Anthony Hickox
Director · 14 films
David Bruckner
Director · 14 films
Don Coscarelli
Director · 14 films
James Gunn
Writer · 14 films
Tommy Lee Wallace
Director · 14 films
Roman Polanski
Director · 13 films
Clint Eastwood
Actor · 12 films
Ivan Reitman
Producer · 12 films
Martin Scorsese
Director · 12 films
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director · 12 films
Adam MacDonald
Actor · 11 films
Damien Leone
Director · 11 films
Christopher Smith
Director · 10 films
Fred Walton
Director · 10 films
Joel Schumacher
Director · 10 films
Park Chan-wook
Director · 10 films
Tommy Wirkola
Director · 10 films
Alfonso Cuarón
Director · 9 films
George Mihalka
Director · 9 films
Greg McLean
Director · 9 films
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director · 9 films
Mel Brooks
Actor · 9 films
Michael Dougherty
Writer · 9 films
Nicolas Roeg
Director · 9 films
Peter Strickland
Director · 9 films
Yann Gonzalez
Director · 9 films
André Øvredal
Director · 8 films
Carter Smith
Director · 8 films
Merian C. Cooper
Producer · 8 films
Neill Blomkamp
Director · 8 films
Paul Schrader
Writer · 8 films
Andrzej Żuławski
Director · 7 films
Bob Clark
Director · 7 films
Emma Tammi
Director · 7 films
Fede Álvarez
Director · 7 films
Karyn Kusama
Director · 7 films
Zelda Williams
Actor · 7 films
Bong Joon Ho
Director · 6 films
David Gordon Green
Director · 6 films
Harry Kümel
Director · 6 films
Jacques Tourneur
Director · 6 films
Nicolas Winding Refn
Director · 6 films
Stanley Kubrick
Director · 6 films
Stephen Sommers
Writer · 6 films
Takashi Yamazaki
Director · 6 films
Tony Scott
Director · 6 films
Don Siegel
Director · 5 films
Eli Craig
Director · 5 films
Geoff Murphy
Filmmaker · 5 films
Jeremy Saulnier
Director · 5 films
Jerome Sable
Writer · 5 films
Jim Sharman
Director · 5 films
Julia Ducournau
Director · 5 films
MJ Bassett
Director · 5 films
Mou Tun-Fei
Director · 5 films
Walerian Borowczyk
Director · 5 films
Zack Snyder
Director · 5 films
Charles Barton
Director · 4 films
Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Producer · 4 films
Drew Goddard
Writer · 4 films
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Director · 4 films
Francis Lawrence
Director · 4 films
James Whale
Director · 4 films
John Erick Dowdle
Director · 4 films
John McTiernan
Director · 4 films
Ken Wiederhorn
Director · 4 films
Rob Green
Director · 4 films
Trey Parker
Writer · 4 films
Chris Kentis
Director · 3 films
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer · 3 films
Joe Carnahan
Writer · 3 films
Joe Cornish
Director · 3 films
John Boorman
Director · 3 films
John McPhail
Director · 3 films
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director · 3 films
Kathryn Bigelow
Director · 3 films
Kong Su-chang
Writer · 3 films
Lewis Jackson
Writer · 3 films
Philip Kaufman
Writer · 3 films
S. Craig Zahler
Director · 3 films
Steve Barker
Director · 3 films
Taika Waititi
Director · 3 films
Trey Edward Shults
Director · 3 films
William Eubank
Director · 3 films
Adrian Lyne
Director · 2 films
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Director · 2 films
Albert Hughes
Director · 2 films
Chris Peckover
Writer · 2 films
Gerard Johnstone
Director · 2 films
Harry O. Hoyt
Writer · 2 films
Howard Hawks
Director · 2 films
Joel Anderson
Director · 2 films
Julius Avery
Director · 2 films
Leo Scherman
Director · 2 films
Michael Mann
Director · 2 films
René Manzor
Director · 2 films
Richard Kelly
Director · 2 films
Wolf Rilla
Director · 2 films
Antonia Bird
Filmmaker · 1 film
Avery Crounse
Writer · 1 film
Elem Klimov
Filmmaker · 1 film
Fred M. Wilcox
Filmmaker · 1 film
Halina Reijn
Filmmaker · 1 film
James Mangold
Filmmaker · 1 film
John Hillcoat
Filmmaker · 1 film
Essential Actors
140Bruce Campbell
Actor · 41 films
Sigourney Weaver
Actor · 17 films
Jamie Lee Curtis
Actor · 25 films
Vincent Price
Actor · 68 films
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor · 11 films
Milla Jovovich
Actor · 12 films
Bill Murray
Actor · 11 films
Nick Frost
Actor · 13 films
Lance Henriksen
Actor · 86 films
Sam Neill
Actor · 10 films
Peter Cushing
Actor · 65 films
Tobin Bell
Actor · 34 films
Nicole Kidman
Actor · 15 films
Kurt Russell
Actor · 13 films
Tim Curry
Actor · 13 films
James Franco
Actor · 11 films
Cillian Murphy
Actor · 8 films
Emily Blunt
Actor · 7 films
Shauna Macdonald
Actor · 6 films
Andrea Riseborough
Actor · 5 films
Don Lee
Actor · 5 films
Natalie Portman
Actor · 5 films
Robert Carlyle
Actor · 5 films
Daniel Kaluuya
Actor · 4 films
Scarlett Johansson
Actor · 4 films
Allison Williams
Actor · 3 films
Lupita Nyong'o
Actor · 3 films
Gong Yoo
Actor · 1 film
Christopher Lee
Actor · 101 films
Doug Bradley
Actor · 52 films
Donald Pleasence
Actor · 51 films
Danielle Harris
Actor · 48 films
Lina Romay
Actor · 47 films
Ron Perlman
Actor · 32 films
Ken Foree
Actor · 30 films
Michael Biehn
Actor · 28 films
Barbara Steele
Actor · 25 films
Laura Gemser
Actor · 24 films
Donald Sutherland
Actor · 22 films
David Naughton
Actor · 21 films
Patrick Wilson
Actor · 21 films
Bill Paxton
Actor · 20 films
Johnny Depp
Actor · 20 films
Daria Nicolodi
Actor · 17 films
Ingrid Pitt
Actor · 17 films
Simon Pegg
Actor · 16 films
Bud Abbott
Actor · 15 films
David Hemmings
Actor · 15 films
Jeff Goldblum
Actor · 15 films
Lou Costello
Actor · 15 films
Naomi Watts
Actor · 15 films
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Actor · 14 films
Tom Skerritt
Actor · 14 films
George Clooney
Actor · 13 films
Olivia Hussey
Actor · 13 films
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Actor · 13 films
Ving Rhames
Actor · 13 films
William Finley
Actor · 13 films
Bruce Willis
Actor · 12 films
David Howard Thornton
Actor · 12 films
John Goodman
Actor · 12 films
Mickey Rourke
Actor · 11 films
Richard O'Brien
Actor · 11 films
Stephen Lang
Actor · 11 films
Viggo Mortensen
Actor · 11 films
Duane Jones
Actor · 10 films
Fay Wray
Actor · 10 films
Guy Pearce
Actor · 10 films
Laurence Fishburne
Actor · 10 films
Melissa George
Actor · 10 films
Carla Gugino
Actor · 9 films
Charlize Theron
Actor · 9 films
David Bowie
Actor · 9 films
Helena Bonham Carter
Actor · 9 films
Jessica Harper
Actor · 9 films
Laura Dern
Actor · 9 films
Liam Neeson
Actor · 9 films
Margot Kidder
Actor · 9 films
Rafe Spall
Actor · 9 films
Samara Weaving
Actor · 9 films
Anthony Stewart Head
Actor · 8 films
James Woods
Actor · 8 films
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor · 8 films
Robert De Niro
Actor · 8 films
Stuart Brennan
Actor · 8 films
Tom Cruise
Actor · 8 films
Toni Collette
Actor · 8 films
Brendan Fraser
Actor · 7 films
Brendan Gleeson
Actor · 7 films
Harrison Ford
Actor · 7 films
Manuela Velasco
Actor · 7 films
Michael Keaton
Actor · 7 films
Sarah Polley
Actor · 7 films
Tim Roth
Actor · 7 films
Tom Hardy
Actor · 7 films
Adrian Pasdar
Actor · 6 films
Anton Yelchin
Actor · 6 films
Dave Bautista
Actor · 6 films
Jon Voight
Actor · 6 films
Julie Christie
Actor · 6 films
Nastassja Kinski
Actor · 6 films
Rachel Weisz
Actor · 6 films
Ryan Reynolds
Actor · 6 films
Vegar Hoel
Actor · 6 films
Bruno Lawrence
Actor · 5 films
Caitlin Gerard
Actor · 5 films
Catherine Deneuve
Actor · 5 films
Denzel Washington
Actor · 5 films
Griffin Dunne
Actor · 5 films
Isabelle Adjani
Actor · 5 films
John Krasinski
Actor · 5 films
Jonathan Tucker
Actor · 5 films
Tim Robbins
Actor · 5 films
Wyatt Russell
Actor · 5 films
Anna Paquin
Actor · 4 films
Burt Reynolds
Actor · 4 films
Geena Davis
Actor · 4 films
Gene Wilder
Actor · 4 films
Jemaine Clement
Actor · 4 films
Patricia Quinn
Actor · 4 films
Patrick Stewart
Actor · 4 films
Sidse Babett Knudsen
Actor · 4 films
Will Smith
Actor · 4 films
Cailee Spaeny
Actor · 3 films
Charlotte Salt
Actor · 3 films
Naomie Harris
Actor · 3 films
Paul Williams
Composer · 3 films
Perdita Weeks
Actor · 3 films
Rick Moranis
Actor · 3 films
Talia Zucker
Actor · 3 films
Blake Lively
Actor · 2 films
Elle Fanning
Actor · 2 films
Ellen Greene
Actor · 2 films
Jovan Adepo
Actor · 2 films
Sarah Brightman
Actor · 2 films
Simone Simon
Actor · 2 films
Agathe Rousselle
Actor · 1 film
Aleksei Kravchenko
Actor · 1 film
Mandy Moore
Actor · 1 film
Sacha Baron Cohen
Actor · 1 film
Movements & Traditions
Essential Filmmakers
76Dario Argento
Director · 47 films
Mario Bava
Director · 25 films
Terence Fisher
Director · 34 films
F. W. Murnau
Director · 12 films
Robert Eggers
Director · 11 films
Ari Aster
Director · 10 films
Hideo Nakata
Director · 26 films
Bong Joon Ho
Director · 6 films
Roger Corman
Filmmaker · 183 films
Koji Shiraishi
Director · 85 films
Takashi Shimizu
Director · 62 films
Norio Tsuruta
Director · 45 films
David Cronenberg
Director · 43 films
Guillermo del Toro
Director · 37 films
Lamberto Bava
Director · 37 films
David Lynch
Director · 36 films
Lucio Fulci
Director · 34 films
Takashi Miike
Director · 32 films
Freddie Francis
Cinematographer · 31 films
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director · 30 films
Shinya Tsukamoto
Director · 24 films
Alexandre Aja
Director · 22 films
Sergio Martino
Director · 20 films
Umberto Lenzi
Director · 20 films
Pupi Avati
Director · 19 films
Francis Ford Coppola
Director · 17 films
Alexandre Bustillo
Director · 16 films
Paul Wegener
Actor · 16 films
Sion Sono
Filmmaker · 16 films
Xavier Gens
Director · 16 films
Ben Wheatley
Director · 14 films
Fritz Lang
Director · 14 films
Roman Polanski
Director · 13 films
Karl Freund
Cinematographer · 12 films
Tod Browning
Director · 12 films
Lars von Trier
Director · 11 films
Bruno Forzani
Director · 10 films
Hélène Cattet
Director · 10 films
Henrik Galeen
Writer · 10 films
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Director · 10 films
Park Chan-wook
Director · 10 films
Pascal Laugier
Writer · 10 films
Kim Jee-woon
Director · 9 films
Robert Wise
Director · 9 films
Benjamin Christensen
Director · 8 films
Gaspar Noé
Director · 8 films
Andrzej Żuławski
Director · 7 films
Kenneth Anger
Director · 7 films
Aldo Lado
Director · 6 films
Ingmar Bergman
Director · 6 films
Jacques Tourneur
Director · 6 films
Yeon Sang-ho
Director · 6 films
Yim Pil-sung
Director · 6 films
Darren Aronofsky
Director · 5 films
Jang Jae-hyun
Director · 5 films
Julia Ducournau
Director · 5 films
Marina de Van
Director · 5 films
Michael Reeves
Writer · 5 films
Peter Weir
Director · 5 films
Robert Wiene
Director · 5 films
Robin Hardy
Director · 5 films
Coralie Fargeat
Director · 4 films
James Whale
Director · 4 films
Jennifer Kent
Director · 4 films
Na Hong-jin
Director · 4 films
Paul Leni
Director · 4 films
Piers Haggard
Director · 4 films
Arthur Robison
Director · 3 films
Claire Denis
Director · 3 films
Jack Clayton
Director · 3 films
Panos Cosmatos
Director · 3 films
Park Ki-hyung
Director · 3 films
Catherine Breillat
Director · 2 films
Jang Cheol-soo
Director · 2 films
Masaki Kobayashi
Director · 2 films
Philippe Grandrieux
Director · 2 films
Essential Actors
64Christopher Lee
Actor · 101 films
Peter Cushing
Actor · 65 films
Vincent Price
Actor · 68 films
Boris Karloff
Actor · 89 films
Barbara Steele
Actor · 25 films
Edwige Fenech
Actor · 9 films
Conrad Veidt
Actor · 15 films
Willem Dafoe
Actor · 19 films
Bela Lugosi
Actor · 80 films
Paul Naschy
Actor · 63 films
Lon Chaney Jr.
Actor · 57 films
Klaus Kinski
Actor · 29 films
Max von Sydow
Actor · 20 films
Paul Wegener
Actor · 16 films
David Hemmings
Actor · 15 films
Philippe Nahon
Actor · 15 films
Anya Taylor-Joy
Actor · 13 films
Max Schreck
Actor · 13 films
Eihi Shiina
Actor · 12 films
Robert Pattinson
Actor · 12 films
Werner Krauss
Actor · 12 films
Dagmar Lassander
Actor · 11 films
Takako Fuji
Actor · 11 films
Béatrice Dalle
Actor · 10 films
Bette Davis
Actor · 10 films
Demi Moore
Actor · 10 films
Florinda Bolkan
Actor · 10 films
Tilda Swinton
Actor · 10 films
Laura Dern
Actor · 9 films
Megumi Okina
Actor · 9 films
Monica Bellucci
Actor · 9 films
Ryo Ishibashi
Actor · 9 films
Vincent Cassel
Actor · 9 films
Barbara Bouchet
Actor · 8 films
Jean Sorel
Actor · 8 films
Song Kang-ho
Actor · 8 films
Toni Collette
Actor · 8 films
George Hilton
Actor · 7 films
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Actor · 6 films
Choi Woo-shik
Actor · 6 films
Emil Jannings
Actor · 6 films
Kumiko Aso
Actor · 6 films
Miki Nakatani
Actor · 6 films
Mimsy Farmer
Actor · 6 films
Catherine Deneuve
Actor · 5 films
Choi Min-sik
Actor · 5 films
Isabelle Adjani
Actor · 5 films
Jung Yu-mi
Actor · 5 films
Mia Farrow
Actor · 5 films
Nanako Matsushima
Actor · 5 films
Edward Woodward
Actor · 4 films
Essie Davis
Actor · 4 films
Florence Pugh
Actor · 4 films
Garance Marillier
Actor · 4 films
Lil Dagover
Actor · 4 films
Yum Jung-ah
Actor · 4 films
Brigitte Helm
Actor · 3 films
Deborah Kerr
Actor · 3 films
Mylène Jampanoï
Actor · 3 films
Hwang Jung-min
Actor · 2 films
Lee Byung-hun
Actor · 2 films
Lim Soo-jung
Actor · 2 films
Cécile de France
Actor · 1 film
Morjana Alaoui
Actor · 1 film